An Oregon bakery has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in hopes of stopping continuous legal threats from a similarly named out-of-state bakery. Crave Bake Shop has received national attention since its 2011 founding, reaching thousands of TV viewers...
Civil Litigation
Oregon fishermen, legislators embroiled in river suit
Oregon's sport fishermen are in an uproar about pending litigation that prevents them from catching wild winter steelhead along the Clackamas River. A program had been developed by state scientists that allowed the fishermen to catch a certain number of the fish in...
Oregon judge throws out lawsuit over sea lion issue
The Humane Society's lawsuit over several states' plans to kill sea lions at the Bonneville Dam to protect several types of endangered fish will not continue after an Oregon U.S. District Court judge dismissed the claim with a 44-page opinion in support of the...
Anti-whaling group files federal suit in Portland
A famed anti-whaling organization is suing Japanese whalers for allegedly ramming and heavily damaging one its boats as well as terrorizing its crews in other ways in 2010. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society filed a federal lawsuit against several parties in an...
Oregon man sues IRS agent
An agent with the Internal Revenue Service has been targeted by an Oregon man's lawsuit that claims she coerced him into agreeing to a sexual encounter. According to the recently-filed civil litigation, the agent threatened to impose a harsh tax penalty on the man if...
Oregon settles discrimination case with transgender man
The state of Oregon will provide a man $36,000 after he sued the state and its Public Employees' Benefits Board when they denied him healthcare coverage. A doctor recommended a hysterectomy for the man, who was then undergoing operations aimed at changing his sex from...
Tour bus crash kills 9 in Oregon
A bus full of tourists fell 200 feet after sliding off a highway during a tour of Oregon's Blue Mountain range, killing nine of its 48 passengers. Because many of the passengers, ranging in age from 7 to 74, were South Korean visitors to Oregon, police had difficulty...
Oregon agency hopes to allow canola fields in Willamette Valley
After its initial plan to allow the farming of canola in the Willamette Valley was blocked by an appeals court, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has prepared a new proposal and hopes to move forward with widespread production of the valuable plant. It is unclear...
Federal government sues Portland and its police force
In response to numerous complaints and reports of police brutality, the federal government has filed a lawsuit against the City of Portland, Oregon, and the Portland Police Bureau. The suit accuses police officers in the city of regularly using an excessive amount of...
Oregon woman faces manslaughter charge after fatal crash
A 41-year-old Oregon woman has been detained in jail on second-degree manslaughter charges following a traffic accident that left a 17-year-old boy dead. The woman was recently indicted by a grand jury for her role in the September crash. Although the suspect faces...
